Report: Apple May Launch First MacBook Pro With a Touchscreen Next Year

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Apple’s first MacBook with a touchscreen is set to enter mass production in late 2026, according to a new report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. This first touchscreen Mac will be a new version of the MacBook Pro with an OLED display, with its touch panel using “on-cell touch technology,” Kuo posted on X.

Two years ago, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman already reported that Apple was working on a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touch-enabled OLED display. At the time, Gurman expected the first touchscreen MacBook Pro to be released in 2025. However, the reporter now expects that the next MacBook Pro refresh coming in spring 2026 will only bring faster M5 chips and no design changes.

Since the release of the first iPad back in 2010, many Mac users have been hoping to see Apple make MacBook and macOS touch-friendly. However, the late Steve Jobs publicly said that adding touchscreens to Macs was a bad idea.

“We’ve done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn’t work,” Jobs said during Apple’s Back to the Mac event in the fall of 2010. “Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives a great demo, but after a short period of time, your arm starts to fatigue, and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. It doesn’t work, it’s ergonomically terrible,” Jobs continued.

Two years later, when asked about the design of Microsoft’s Surface tablets, Apple’s current CEO Tim Cook came up with his infamous toaster/fridge comparison.”You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those aren’t going to be pleasing to the user,” Cook said at the time.

Well, now that the iPad is almost a full-fledged computer thanks to iPadOS 26, maybe Apple has finally changed its mind about 2-in-1 devices.

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